Disagreements on the intensity of tornadoes

Since the late 18th century, meteorologists and engineers have worked to assess the intensity of tornadoes, typically through the work of a tornado damage survey or a scientific case study. This work has led to the creation of the Fujita scale (F-scale) in 1971 and the TORRO scale in 1975. However, the original Fujita scale lacked the incorporation of diverse empirical damage to estimate wind speeds, such as construction quality; to address this, the Enhanced Fujita scale (EF-scale) was created in 2007, followed by the International Fujita scale (IF-scale) in 2023. Despite these efforts to help assess the strength of tornadoes, engineers, scientists and academics have disagreed with each other on how strong various tornadoes were. This is a list of notable disagreements on the intensity of a particular tornado.